3 Parents' Errors Because Children Like To Choose Food

JAKARTA - Every parent will be happy if their child is ready to eat food. However, you may have experienced for yourself how difficult it is to introduce new food to toddlers. Receiving new food is not easy for children. They need to be introduced repeatedly and accustomed to accepting it.

Unfortunately, Sarah Remmer, RD, a nutritionist for children and the family of The Center for Family Nutrition, Calgary, Canada, told Parenting, Friday, December 9, saying that it is often the parents themselves who form their children into picky machines. Without realizing it, parents make mistakes that make their children too voters.

How did that happen? Sarah says parents often make assumptions about their children's eating behavior and accidentally limit their progress in receiving new foods. Yet it will have a profound impact on children's eating behavior.

Don't give up hope just yet, if your child is picky ether. Sarah mentions three parents' mistakes that cause children to narrow their appetite so that they grow into a picky ether.

In fact, children need to be introduced to new foods 10-15 times to decide whether they really like it or not. Don't stop serving certain foods because of previous refusals. Let's introduce it again and again.

Often, parents seem trapped in a comfort zone because they see their children being able to eat well what has been served so far. Finally, as parents, you limit your child's food too much because you think the food is not child-friendly, for example because it is too sweet, too salty, or inappropriate size.

According to Sarah, parents play the most important role in shaping their children's food preferences in the first five years of life.

Many parents want their children to eat healthy foods such as vegetables and fruit but don't set a good example. They think that children don't pay attention to their parents' behavior and culture. Finally, they are indifferent to eating instant food and snacks in front of their children. Even though what these parents do is an example for their children.